Michael,

There are more good Europeans than their mindless Obama-worship would indicate. The problem is mostly their dismal media situation. Think wall-to-wall Rachel Maddow x 1000 - and that's the more "centrist" European media outlets. The only political "debate" Euro media allows aired is between the Left and the Far Left (all else barely even worthy of scorn and ridicule). Euro citizens are trained by their utterly corrupt media to instinctively hate Israel and anything pro-American (they love Obama because they know Obama is anti-American). Given enough correct information and truth, many would change their minds, but the media-enforced political correctness is tightly enforced and monolithic, and it may take generations to break through it.

I thank you for posting this article. Ledeen will surely irritate a number of Europeans with this insightful piece. I so agree with him. Everytime we visit relatives in Yorkshire, England and Norfolk, the deterioration in the culture is so sad. It's dying bit by bit. The WW II generation sees it and you can discuss the truth of the situation. The younger lefties just want to diss America.

I loved the line about Europe becoming increasingly a theme park. So true. Come visit us, we have castles, fabulous churches, and fantastic art. We do build some nice cars. But we buy all our technology from the U.S. or Asia.

Madeline Albright is in Prague snarling about the "disgusting Serbs" who dare to call her a war criminal for bombing them to set up a Muslim terrorist state in the heart of Europe in what was the cradle of Serbian orthodox Christianity in Kosovo.
Albright used American power to support the Muslim Kosovo Liberation Terrorists over the Serbs who had bee our allies during WW I and II.
Europe supports the Palestinians and the Muslims - no wonder they like the Islamocomminist Obama.
Remember when she said she did not know she was jewish at her confirmation hearing?- a liar like Hilary.
Let the Europeans sort themselves out- they can have Obama after he is tried for treason.

What is also so disturbing about Europeans is their intolerance and tendency to authoritarianism. They are not content to simply observe that Americans are different than they are. Instead they exhibit a bizarre hatred of all things American. Like all leftists it is very difficult to discuss ideas with them. They just can't help reaching for anti-capitalist arguments and accusations of greed and contempt for the independence (read freedom) of the individual. They see these traits as threatening and undesirable.

On a recent mission trip to a poorer European country with significant Muslims, we did a lot of dirty,nasty manual labor.
One of the locals was shocked and told us "we thought Americans were coming to order us around". Heavens knows what they read and are told about us.

I lived and worked in Germany for 5 years in the sixties. The Euros, even the Germans, are sheep. They consider themselves 'not to blame' because they are just doing what they are told. And as long as they behave, they will be taken care of. sweet!

Europeans have spent the last century hating the fact that they long ago lost their super-power status to the USA.

So, of course, they love N∅bama, because they see him destroying this nation and weakening us down to their level faster than anyone over there could have dreamed possible.

They know Mitt Romney will stop that slide and help to return us to the super power that we truly are. They hate the thought of that.

''Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it."(Ronald Reagan)